Kunst



(No M01181.)

W. & c. A. GUTENKUNSTQ HAY CARRIER- Patented Oct. 29, 1889. I

A UNITED STATES WILLIAM GUTENKUNST AND CHARLES A. GUTENK UNST,

I WISCONSIN.

PATENT OFFICE.

on MILWAUKEE,

HAY-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 413,781, dated October 29,1889.

Application filed May l1 1889- Serial No. 310,417. (No model.)

To all whom it may cofilherni I Be it known that we, WILLIAM GUTEN- KUNST and CHARLES A. GUTENKUNST, of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Hay-Carriers; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of said inven-' made in the carrier whereby simplicity of con struction, strength, and steadiness of the parts are secured and facility and reliability of operation are accomplished.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of our. improved device. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section on line X X of Fig.'1,looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 3is a view of some of the same parts shown in Fig. 2, but in different position. Fig. 4 is a side view of the stop, showing how it is attached to the track. Fig. 5 is aview from the under side of the same device shown in Fig. 4.

The carrier-frame A is supported and travels on the track B on wheels 0 0, having their axles in the upper part of the frame.

In the lower part of the frame are two pulleys D D, one at each end, axled in the frame, the peripheries of which pulleys are grooved andcarry therein the elevating-rope E. The rope E carries thereon, between the pulleys D D, the tackle-block D, the rope running under a sheave therein. The rope E is carried over a sheave in a sheave-frame D which frame is supported on the track B. The other end of the rope is secured rigidly to the carrier-frame. The tackle-block D is provided with a head F, adapted to enter a throat in the frame through a flaring mouth A. A bent grappling-lever G is pivoted in the lower part of the frame and is constructed to swing transversely of the frame in arecess provided therefor. The lower end of,

this grappling -lever is adapted to engage with the shank of the tackle-block D under the head F and retain it in the frame in the position shown in Fig. 2, a spring G bearing against the frame and against the grapplinglever, being adapted to hold the grapplinglatch is adapted to bear against the lever G and throw it outwardly, in the manner shown in Fig. 3. The upper end of. the latch His adapted to impinge against the inclines I I of the stop I, and as the carrier passes one 'or the other of these inclines tobe forced outwardly, thereby throwing its lower end inwardly against the lever G, raising it out of engagement with the head F of the tackle,in the form shown in Fig. 3. When the travel of the carrier has carried the latch H along the incline I to the lateral recess 1' therein, the upper end of the latch is tilted forward into .the recess by the gravity of the latch and the action of the spring G on the lever G, whichflbears against the lower end of the latch H. When the lever-latch H has entered the recess I", the carrier is locked against further travel on the track by the contact of the latch-against the end walls of the recess in the stop. It will be understood that as the latclrI-I passes an incline I during the travel of th flqarrier the grappling-lever G is disengaged from the head F, and the tackle-block D is permitted to drop away from the carrierframe, and when the lever-latchH has entered the recess 1' the carrier will be locked in position on the track until the sheave-frame D is raised again by the draft-rope E, which, when sufficiently elevated by the draft-rope, is adapted to strike against the lower end of the lever-latch H and carry it inwardly, throwing the upper end outwardly and disengaging it from the stop I, so that the carrieris permitted to travel on the track away from the stop. The track B consists of two round metal rods, or, preferably, of round gaspipe B B, secured rigidly together at a distance from but parallel to each other by means of double coupling-bars K K and supporting cross-bars L L, the rods or pipes being secured therein by means of set-screws M M turning therethrough against them. The cross-bars are each provided with a supporting-hook R, which passes through a central aperture therefor in the bar, and is secured thereto by means of a nut turning thereon belowthe bar. These hooks are adapted to engage with the carrier-supporting structure. The stopI is conveniently made integral with cross-bars L L,whieh are secured to the gaspipe by means of set-screws M M. One or more of the cross-bars L is provided with a downwardly-extending' hook '1, adapted to support thereon sheave-frames D" at such points on the track as may be desired.

The track and the devices attached directly to it are believed to be novel, and we reserve the right to secure them by an application to be filed before this patent is issued.

Vhat we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. I11 a hay-carrier, the combination, with the frame of the carrier,0f a lever G, pivoted at one end in the lower part of the carrier, so as to swing transversely thereof, and having a median projection adapted to engage the head of the tackle, and a lever-latch II, pivoted centrally in the side of the carrier and swingin g transversely thereof, the lower end of the lever-latch being adapted to bear movably against the upper end of the lever G, and the upper end .of the latch beingadapted to impinge and bear laterally against a fixed stop on the track, substantially as described.

2. In a hay-carrier, the combination, with the frame, of a grappling-lever G, so pivoted in the frame as to swing transversely thereof, a spring G, adapted to hold the lever Gyieldingly up to its work, and a lever latch H,pivoted in the frame and hearing at one end against the grappling-lever G and at the other end adapted to engage a stop on the track, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

\VILLIAM GUTENKUNST. CHARLES A. GUTENKUNS'I. Witnesses:

U. 'l. BENEDICT, (t H. KUNEY. 

